Events on campus include a Chinese fashion exhibit, a Phi Beta Kappa talk by Kenneth McClane, a Beethoven concert, a lecture on natural medicines of ancient Greece, and 'Ideas for a Better World.'
Holocaust survivor Marianne Willems-Hendrix endowed a chair in Jewish studies at Cornell despite never having attended the university. It encourages study of Jewish women. (Sept. 24, 2012)
Professor of history and classics Barry Strauss examines the methods of three great military leaders in his new book, 'Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership.' (April 25, 2012)
Architecture students went to Russia in October as part of a fall semester studio meant to inspire new ways of looking at culture, and completed projects including pavilions in Ithaca and Moscow.
Cornell has retained its leading positions in the annual survey ranking top architecture programs, “America's Best Architecture and Design Schools 2017.”
Maren Vitousek, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has received a $500,000 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award to study links between stress, social connectedness, health and future performance.
Political scientist Roxanne Euben to speak on 'Travel, Translation and Comparative Political Theory' for fifth Cornell College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture, Sept. 15. (Sept. 7, 2010)
A research team led by Adam Anderson, professor of human development, has discovered the taste center in the human brain by uncovering which parts of the brain distinguish different types of tastes.
Landscape Architecture’s Brian Davis and Sean Burkholder, University at Buffalo, received a $1.6 million grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for creating ecologic gold from shipping port sediment.
Events this week include actress Marlee Matlin, Darwin Days, a Breaking Bread discussion of race, religion and campus climate, and Oscar-nominated shorts and films featuring cats at Cornell Cinema.